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Oh please let it be a fully egalitarian future…

Attached is a perfectly acceptable social media post and two entirely understandable LLM responses to the post and a reimagining of the post.

One relevant data point in terms of how soon we’d conceivably be refactoring language models and updating our own views:

From their research, Sáenz and Poston Jr expect the United States to have progressed to overall white minority demography by 2044.

Of course, a white minority doesn’t necessarily equate a dismantling of a power structure favoring white folks.

It shouldn’t need to be said on the fediverse that racists need not reply - expect most folks will approach this academically as intended.

PS: if you hate this post, please try to be as nice as you can about it - e.g. toss me a polite sentence after you downvote

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm already amazing at emails and summaries, I can write my own code but rarely need to outside my job, I don't have a use case for translation, I don't use my current phone assistant and can't see myself using a "true" virtual assistant.

Got any better scenarios? Cuz all those use cases fill me with apathy.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, 20 years ago you didn't need a computer but now it is virtually ridiculous if you don't have one in your pocket.

Also you are not using a virtual assistant nowadays because they are s***. But once you can have a natural, context sensitive conversation with your assistant where instead of "create an alarm at 8:30" you can ask it to "see if there is any important email or WhatsApp I need to answer" or "please tell me if Joe messages about mom"...